LandCatch Natural Selection has finally climbed back from a devastating blow in 2009, when the Chilean industry closed the door on imported eggs, and the company was left with 2 million pounds of stock that had to be dumped.
“It takes a long time to recover from that,” Neil Manchester, who will take over as CEO of LandCatch by the end of the year, told IntraFish
In 2005, it occupied 18 percent of the global salmon market between its operations in Scotland and Chile, but after the infectious salmon anemia (ISA) crisis hit, its share dropped to zero in Chile and about 12 percent in the United Kingdom.
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